Privacy

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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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What's more important to you a free internet or your Internet privacy? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 hours ago by Sackeshi@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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It's no secret that we trade our information for access to the Internet. So what do you prefer a subscription based Internet with privacy protection or a free internet with companies allowed to take and sell your data

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[–] Libb@jlai.lu 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

It’s no secret that we trade our information for access to the Internet.

You tell me. I had this odd idea that I was already paying a monthly sub to access the Web and then, on top of that, corporations suddenly deciding it was their natural right to suck our data without our consent.